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The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It by Julian Cribb
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Virtual HIV Prevention
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The information systems we're building are starting to get better at taking input from crowds and using it to help us mine data for what we will most likely want or need.
A Look at “I Live in the Future and Here’s How It Works” by Nick Bilton
Insight into the malleability of data, and the need for stories and filters, are as relevant to those in philanthropy as they are to car salesmen, reporters, film makers, and fiction writers.
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Innovative Solutions for the Housing Crisis
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The Challenge of Organizational Learning
A recent study found three common barriers to knowledge sharing across nonprofits and their networks, as well as ways and means to overcome them.
The Dragonfly Effect
Two veterans of consumer psychology, marketing, and entrepreneurship provide a guide to using social media for social change.
The Case for Causal AI
Using artificial intelligence to predict behavior can lead to devastating policy mistakes. Health and development programs must learn to apply causal models that better explain why people behave the way they do to help identify the most effective levers for change.